We must look carefully contemplate on the following Upadesa. Life or Existence itself is Abstract, not merely an opinion held by the writer but the truth, however it is tangibly felt within the confines of the body. We should not compound Life as or in the body as a sensation tangibly felt by our mind or senses or the body, however, many worship the Supreme Being, through the habit of loving devotion, as existing within the “lotus of the heart” as the Self, the life-current pervading their bodies, senses and mind, without which nothing could exist. Body, senses and mind are in Life is one of the final teachings. If all pervading Life is compounded to the body, when the body dies, there is no longer Life. But does Life die with the death of the body? Life escapes and blends with Life. Like air in a jar blends with air when the jar breaks. Life does not die! One cannot kill Life because it is Abstract. Life is eternally immortal. So, Life or Existence-Consciousness must not be compounded and confined to the body, senses and mind. Existence in the ultimate sense is omnipresent and must not be compounded to the body. “I am here, not going anywhere,” said Sri Bhagavan in 1950 to his devotees, who placed too much emphasis on the body of Sri Bhagavan. This knowledge that Life is confined within the body is merely ignorance, and furthermore, it has arisen only through our ignorance. Why do we think we are here and the Life is in the body? We have left home through our desires and wandered here and thither, firstly in the subtle world and then being deeply ingrained in us, chasing insatiable desires, in the gross world. Life is itself self-effulgent and bliss, but it becomes confined in the body, like a bulb within the enclosing cover/shade, emitting dim light as a result of its confinement and becomes misearable. Therefore, we must endevour in this term on earth that we serve to get rid of ignorance.
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